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Hi everybody. So... I'm Irish. I read a report recently that a man reaches his sexual peak at age 18 but I didn't know this... until I was twenty five. So the world will never know what a stud I was. No one took a bite out of this peach when it was ripe.
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I'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking... because unlike sports, when you are parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people that are rooting for you.
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- F' K% \* O) O. L1 a9 @# i6 g, JI'm an immigrant and I used to drive an old car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "if you don't speak English, go home!" I didn't notice it for two years.+ h- a8 W( e. p4 Z5 u |) O: `
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I worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:
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- H/ D: X% D; x3 u1 zI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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- f0 E, _8 t; B0 H"What's the 2nd Amendment?"$ A. B( g7 N9 w# V
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?" C) L& _ a! P
& ]* S3 o% v" u7 {$ |" gI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?) S0 p/ D# R% }8 {) g- p6 O
' ^8 M7 ^! [: F* p8 BI have a family now, but I used to be scared of marriage. I was like wow... 50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever!) V1 V! D* [5 s* E3 U+ z5 z, N
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I just had my first child last year. I was really amazed at it. I was in the delivery room, holding up my son, thinking to myself, "Wow... He was just born... And he's already a U.S citizen."
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"0 X" v) Y }3 S9 \
8 {7 i' A) k- p% E: @Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”9 i2 [. f8 w/ |% S- W
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This sign is basically a threat. It just says that I have a screaming baby and a nagging wife and that I am not afraid of dying anymore.
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:# P) O( O- Q- m8 L. C
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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$ N' X6 g, t3 g8 b2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms., M B( ?% g- J* g9 Q8 C1 w8 G2 J
1 }3 C. u% T& y6 M# Q7 V3 g. C2 u# z"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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Joe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".
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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.2 T/ N: R1 s" b# x$ a! k
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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